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Essays. Second Series by Emerson Ralph Waldo
epub |eng | 2010-02-02 | Author:Emerson, Ralph Waldo

»As Heaven and Earth are fairer far Than Chaos and blank Darkness, though once chiefs; And as we show beyond that Heaven and Earth, In form and shape compact and ...
( Category: Language Experience Approach October 6,2020 )
Newton and the Origin of Civilization by Buchwald Jed Z.; Feingold Mordechai;
epub |eng | 2012-08-14 | Author:Buchwald, Jed Z.; Feingold, Mordechai;

equinoctial: mid-Chelae Chelarum medium secundum latitudinem equinoctial: right-hand and foreknee of Centaur Centauri praeterea dextram manum, [et] anteriora genua equinoctial: flexure of Eridanus flexum fluminis equinoctial: head of Cetus Ceti ...
( Category: Historiography August 7,2020 )
The Last Stargazers by Emily Levesque
epub, mobi |eng | 2020-08-15 | Author:Emily Levesque

The Very Large Array in New Mexico (in its photogenic “D” configuration). Credit: Alex Savello, NRAO/AUI/NSF. First, though, I had a few of my own. As part of my summer ...
( Category: Astrophysics & Space Science August 6,2020 )
Gaia by Lovelock James
epub |eng | 2000-08-14 | Author:Lovelock, James

Fig. 6. The fluxes of oxygen and carbon between the major reservoirs of the Earth’s atmosphere, surface, and oceans. Quantities are shown in units of terramoles. A terramole of carbon ...
( Category: Environmental Science August 6,2020 )
Philosophy of Science Volume 1 by Mario Bunge
epub |eng | 2017-07-12 | Author:Mario Bunge [Bunge, Mario]

Fig. 5.5 The theorem on the right branch of the tree entails no emprically testable consequence: it can be supported or undermined from above only. Finally, we shall not demand ...
( Category: Middle Eastern August 6,2020 )
A Little History of Science (Little Histories) by William Bynum
azw3 |eng | 2012-10-14 | Author:William Bynum [Bynum, William]

CHAPTER 23 Digging Up Dinosaurs When I was very young, I had problems telling the difference between dinosaurs and dragons. In pictures, they often look alike, with huge teeth, powerful ...
( Category: History & Philosophy August 6,2020 )
Timefulness by Marcia Bjornerud
epub |eng | | Author:Marcia Bjornerud

ONE BILLION YEARS OF LASSITUDE After the upheavals of the GOE, Earth’s atmosphere seems to have settled into a long period of geochemical stability. Although the main period of iron ...
( Category: Geology August 6,2020 )
Biocentrism by Bob Berman
epub |eng | 2010-05-31 | Author:Bob Berman

11 SPACE OUT Ye Gods! Annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy. —Alexander Pope (1728) How do our animal minds apprehend the world? We’ve all been taught ...
( Category: Cosmology August 6,2020 )
Magic by Owen Davies
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-01-25 | Author:Owen Davies [Davies, Owen]

Chapter 4 Writing magic The power of the word is one of the contested boundaries between magic and religion. Most of the world’s sacred religious texts mention magic. The Koran ...
( Category: Wicca August 6,2020 )
The Apollo Chronicles by Brandon R. Brown
epub |eng | 2019-08-05 | Author:Brandon R. Brown

figure 9.3 The Moon’s Copernicus Crater as viewed by Lunar Orbiter II. This 2013 version greatly improves the version released in 1966, thanks to the Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project. ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight August 6,2020 )
Truth by Simon Blackburn
epub |eng | | Author:Simon Blackburn

PART II VARIETIES OF ENQUIRY 7 TRUTHS OF TASTE; TRUTH IN ART It may seem strange to start with this domain. Questions of taste are often thought not to admit ...
( Category: Epistemology August 5,2020 )
Con Quest! by Sam Maggs
epub |eng | | Author:Sam Maggs

14 Alex There was something up with Cat. Alex wasn’t great with people, but his sister was the one exception to that rule. He basically spent twenty-four hours a day ...
( Category: Siblings August 5,2020 )
The Methodological Heritage of Newton by Robert E. Butts
epub |eng | 1970-08-14 | Author:Robert E. Butts [Butts, Robert E. and John W. Davis]

VI Thomas Reid and the Newtonian Turn of British Methodological Thought L. L. LAUDAN Introduction In the famous passage in the preface to his Treatise, Hume expressed the fervent hope ...
( Category: Philosophy August 5,2020 )
12 Seconds of Silence: How a Team of Inventors, Tinkerers, and Spies Took Down a Nazi Superweapon by Jamie Holmes
epub |eng | 2020-08-03 | Author:Jamie Holmes [Holmes, Jamie]

24 Chemical Boys This past week, we studied about chemical agents,” Ed Hatch informed his parents, as if he were checking in from boarding school. The last few days at ...
( Category: History of Technology August 5,2020 )
Unreported Truths about COVID-19 and Lockdowns: Part 2: Update and Examination of Lockdowns as a Strategy by Alex Berenson
azw3 |eng | 2020-08-02 | Author:Alex Berenson [Berenson, Alex]

So lockdowns spread country to country and state to state. Even at the time, it was not clear whether the measures were intended to “flatten the curve” – to slow ...
( Category: Medicine August 5,2020 )

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